List of ambassadors of Germany to Egypt

The List of German ambassadors in Egypt contains all German ambassadors in Egypt, including their predecessors such as Prussian consuls. The embassy is in the capital Cairo.

History

The Federal Republic of Germany established diplomatic relations with Egypt in 1952. Between May 1965 and June 1972 the embassy was closed and diplomatic relations were broken off. During this time, the Federal Republic had diplomats with the rank of embassy councilor or legation councilor as chargé d'affaires on site. The GDR had a commercial representation from 1953, a consulate general from 1959 and an ambassador in Cairo from 1969.

Ambassadors

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
Heinrich Brugsch		1864		Prussian consul in Cairo
Julius von Jasmund		1870	1874	(1827–1879)[1]
Anton Saurma von der Jeltsch		1878		Consul General
Eduard von Derenthall		1882		Consul General
Otto L. Schmidt-Leda		1885
Casimir von Leyden			1894	Consul General
Oswald von Richthofen		1885	1896	German representative at the public debt administration of Egypt in Cairo (The German Debt Commissioner in Cairo)
Maximilian von Loehr		1894
Jakob Johannes Schneller		1901	1901
Theodor Bumiller		1902		Freiherr von Humboldt headed the consulate in Alexandria
Hartmann von Richthofen		1903	1904	chargé d’Affaires
Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff		1906	1908
Hermann von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg		1908	1912
Padel von Kulemann		1916		[2]
1923: Re-establishment of a German diplomatic mission in Egypt (the Kingdom of Egypt existed from 1922 to 1952)
Eberhard von Stohrer		1926	1935
Wernher von Ow-Wachendorf		1936	1939
1952: Establishment of diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Egypt
Günther Pawelke		1952	1954	[3]
Rudolf Holzhausen		1955	1955	chargé d’affaires
Walther Becker		1955	1959
Walter Weber		1959	1964
Georg Federer		1964	1965
1965: Breaking off diplomatic relations
Horst Hauthal		1965	1966	Legation Councilor 1st Class, chargé d'Affaires
Lothar Lahn		1966	1969	Embassy counselor, chargé d'affaires
Walter Jesser		1969	1972	Envoy; chargé d’Affaires
1972: Resumption of diplomatic relations
Hans-Georg Steltzer		1972	1978
Wolfgang Behrends		1978	1979
Hans-Joachim Hille		1979	1982
Kurt Müller		1982	1986
Martin Elsässer		1986	1990
Heinz Fiedler		1990	1993
Wolf-Dietrich Schilling		1993	1998
Peter Dingens		1998	2000
Paul von Maltzahn		2000	2003
Martin Kobler		2003	2006
Bernd Erbel		2006	2009
Michael Bock		2009	2014
Hansjörg Haber		2014	2015
Julius Georg Luy		2015	2019
Cyrill Jean Nunn		2019	2021
Frank Hartmann		2021	Present

See also

• Egypt–Germany relations